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Breaking the silence : Little Rock's Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963 / by Sara Alderman Murphy ; edited by Patrick C. Murphy, II.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Sara Alderman, 1924-1995, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (Little Rock, Ark.)--History.
- Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (Little Rock, Ark.).
- Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.
- Segregation in education.
- Women, White--Political activity--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.
- Women, White.
- Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations.
- Little Rock (Ark.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 303 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- The Little Rock Central High School integration crisis did not end in1957 when President Eisenhower sent a portion of the first Airborne Division to protect nine black students.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Adolphine Fletcher Terry
- 2. Little Rock in the I950S
- 3. Crisis at Central High
- 4. Call Out the Women
- 5. Breaking the Silence
- 6. Barefooted and Pregnant
- 7. A Question of Conscience
- 8. Stop This Outrageous Purge
- 9. A Community Divided
- 10. To the Ladies, God Bless 'Em
- 11. They Would Bow Their Heads
- 12. Panel of American Women
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-083-7
- OCLC:
- 1076255929
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